I wonder what your idea of heaven would be β A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows. β¨ Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961, p.165, Simon and Schuster
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